Yep, congrats, Russ. Good work, and I second the appreciation for the website.

I'm a very skeptical person, and I try to be as scientific as possible when evaluating issues. A year ago, if you'd mentioned mercury to me, I probably would have rolled my eyes. Since I've done my research, I find that the ADA's arguments and evidence for the "safety" of amalgam are so pathetic as to defy belief.

They claimed for years the mercury in amalgam was chemically bonded and inert. When it was shown definitively that amalgams off-gas mercury vapor, the ADA said "uh, yeah, but no one's proven it's harmful." What a pathetic, lame, criminally irresponsible response.

I tend not to be a conspiracy theorist. I know you've done good work showing how the ADA benefits from amalgam sales. Yet I personally think it's more a cultural issue: they simply cannot bring themselves to believe that they've made a catastrophic mistake that compromised the health and happiness of literally hundreds of millions of people over the past 100+ years.